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Computing comet tail profiles

To derive tail profiles – e.g. to study asteroids or comets – I’ve developed a tail_profile.py code. It’s not in any of …

MPC links and cheat-sheet

No magic here, just a bunch of links to pages at MPC I use regularly and that often take me a little …

Cheat-sheet: Recovering NEOs

This document is targeted at advanced users and lists most of the commands needed to recover near-earth objects. For use on your …

ODI now with auto-focus

Observing with ODI just got a little more comfortable. To keep ODI in focus and to get the best possible image quality …

pODI pipeline presented at ADASS

I just came back from Hawai’i where I presented the QuickReduce pipeline for the WIYN One Degree Imager at the “Astronomical Data …

Fringe removal – it works!

Fringing is caused by wave interference in the very thin CCD detector material, not unlike the colorful rings you see in a …